Relative Links Don't Work in Word Viewer (166049)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
- Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Microsoft Word 2000
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q166049 SYMPTOMS When you click to follow a relative hyperlink that was
created with Internet Assistant, Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 cannot parse the
link information and open the document.
Instead, the URL
Open dialog box from Microsoft Internet Explorer appears.
CAUSE This problem occurs if both of the following conditions are
true:
- The hyperlink was created in Internet Assistant, an
Internet add-in that you can use to create Web pages in earlier versions of
Microsoft Word (versions earlier than Word 97).
- The link is a relative link. That is, rather than having a
full path to the link, the location of the link is relative to the current
directory.
WORKAROUND Use the Internet Explorer URL Open dialog
box that appears to go to the linked document. STATUSMicrosoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section of this article.MORE INFORMATIONYou can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view
documents that were created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in
Microsoft Word 2002, and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.REFERENCES
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
889347
Description of the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 12/17/2004 |
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| Keywords: | kbinterop kbnofix kbprb kbusage KB166049 |
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